In most stories about dealing with the Devil, we find two kinds of personalities, with whom the Devil decides to bargain. One, of course is the devious denizen of the Earth, the kind of guy or gal whose ego’s are so frail that any kind of stroking is like flint to wood, creating a spark, a light, a zest for more of a full flame of fire. Or the Devil looks for the forlorn, the person who understands about being a loser but never realizes why. This human blames others for any mistakes and hardly ever owns up to his or her responsibility for being a walking talking douchebag. The Devil, if anything is sly, the Devil itself is insecure, lacking for the moral or value of deed, but always needing to be the puppet master, the master of all, for fear that, It, the Devil may be out Deviled by someone even more sinister.
I have to applaud, Vladimir Putin and his mafioso of Russian Oligarchs, the mostly men, who understood the narcissistic ways of Trump and the insecure issues of the leadership of the Republican Party. Mr Putin studied American politics with more insight then the current crop of GOP politicians and understood that democracy can be strong, but an allegiance to the democratic way provides lots and lots of loopholes, fine print and the necessity to play fair. Democracy may be a way of governing for all the people, and that Mr Putin understood could also be democracy’s demise, especially the playing fair part of the game of democracy.
It is not that all Democrat politicians are Boy or Girl Scouts in their actions, but history has proven that a majority of the current crop of Dems still believe that rules matter, and playing by those rules a natural given, except when it is taken…which its exactly what Vladimir, his Russian mafioso, and the GOP leadership relied on…not playing by the same rules. Every day, the American public who can read not just Breibart who watch TV, not just FOX or listen to the radio, not Limbaugh are shocked and horrified at how many lies Trump and Company have committed, have denied only to revisit and have counted on to be repeated so often that the lie will become truth. Vladimir and his cohorts took the narcissism of Trump, the deviousness of the GOP and the surprisingly naiveté of the Dems and elected a President to sit in the Oval Office and a Republican majority to govern the Congress. And somehow even as WE know this to be true, we are still debating the issue…just as Putin understood so well about the weakness of democracy!
